The Republic of Mark Schwarzer is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, otherworldly petting zoo, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.552 billion Mark Schwarzerians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.8%.

The Mark Schwarzerian economy, worth 93.1 trillion NKBS a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,962 NKBS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 170,219 per year while the poor average 16,871, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

Citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, and when their backs are against the walls Mark Schwarzerians look out for gay men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mark Schwarzer's national animal is the NKB.

Mark Schwarzer is ranked 108,624^th in the world and 5,347^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,188.91 on the Gilded Widget Scale.